In memory of


Lieut. Archibald W. B. Miller


1st King’s Own Scottish Borderers

(attached Royal Flying Corps)


†July 13th, 1917, age 21

Son of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Miller, Kirkurd Manse


Remembered with honour at
HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

Lieutenant Archibald William Buchanan Miller, K.O.S.B. (att. R.F.C.) formerly reported missing, Friday, July 13th, 1917, now believed killed (says the “Court Journal”), was the younger son of the Rev. T.D. Miller and Mrs Miller of Kirkurd, Peeblesshire.  He was educated at Fettes College, where he acquitted himself with distinction, and played in the 1st XI and the 1st XV.  He entered Sandhurst in 1914, and was gazetted to the 1st Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, On attaining his nineteenth year, June 21st 1915, he was sent as Second-Lieutenant in command of a large draft to the Dardanelles, and was promoted full Lieutenant.  After the evacuation he served with his regiment in France as adjutant.  In 1916 Lieutenant Miller received a commission in the Royal Flying Corps.  A fellow officer writes of him: - “We used to love it when he came “stunting” over us either at work or in the evening.  We all thought him extraordinarily courageous, and he could be almost anything with the machine.  I suppose that you know that he was recommended for the Military Cross for doing several good things over the line.”  Another officer writes: - His career in the infantry was very meritorious; his career in the Flying Corps was brilliant.  He is a great loss to all who knew him.”  All who knew him say as a soldier and an airman he was absolutely fearless.”  Lieutenant Miller was a grandson of the late Thomas Miller, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.E., Rector of Perth Academy, and of the late Alexander Grant, Esq., of Monkstown, Co. Cork, and a grand nephew of the late General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.G.B., Chairman of the Honourable East India Company.  His elder brother Lieutenant Thomas Alexander Grant Miller, 1st Battalion, K.O.S/B., fell at the landing on Gallipoli, on April 25th, 1915. Miller was killed in action when his Nieuport Scout was shot down by Hans von Adam of Jasta 6.

Victories

Date

Time

Unit

Aircraft

Opponent

Location

1

01/06/1917

05:15

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (OOC)

Brebieres

2

19/06/1917

19:45

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (DES)

Douai

3

29/06/1917

07:45

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (DES)

Douai

4

29/06/1917

07:54

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (OOC)

East of Brebieres

5

12/07/1917

20:15

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (OOC)

Zonnebeke-Roulers

6

12/07/1917

20:15

29

Nieuport (N1506)

Albatross D.III (OOC)

Zonnebeke-Roulers